| Grand Prix | |
|---|---|
 Payal Kapadia won in 2024. | |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Cannes Film Festival |
| First award | 1967 |
| Currently held by | Payal Kapadia All We Imagine as Light (2024) |
| Website | www |
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or.
The award was first presented in 1967. The prize was not awarded in 1977. The festival was not held at all in 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 1968 events in France.
Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two films on 10 occasions (1967, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2011, and 2021–22). Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Dumont, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Matteo Garrone have won the most awards in this category, each winning twice. Three directing teams have shared the award: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for The Kid with a Bike (2011), and Joel and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). Márta Mészáros was the first woman to have won the award, for 1984's Diary for My Children .
Since 1995, the official name of the award has been simply the Grand Prix, but it has had two other names since its creation in 1967: the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury (1967–1988) and the Grand Prix du Jury (1989–1994).
In addition, the award should not be confused with the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939–1954; 1964–1974), which was the highest prize of the festival and a precursor to the Palme d'Or. [1]
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Accident | Joseph Losey |  | |
| I Even Met Happy Gypsies | Skupljači perja | Aleksandar Petrović |  | |
| 1969 | Ådalen 31 | Bo Widerberg |  | |
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto | Elio Petri |  |
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo |  | |
| Taking Off | Miloš Forman | |||
| 1972 | Solaris | Солярис | Andrei Tarkovsky |  |
| 1973 | The Mother and the Whore | La Maman et la putain | Jean Eustache |  |
| 1974 | Arabian Nights | Il fiore delle Mille e una notte | Pier Paolo Pasolini | / |
| 1975 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | Werner Herzog |  |
| 1976 | Cría Cuervos | Carlos Saura |  | |
| The Marquise of O | Die Marquise von O... | Éric Rohmer | / | |
| 1978 | Bye Bye Monkey | Ciao maschio | Marco Ferreri | / |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | | ||
| 1979 | Siberiade | Сибириада | Andrei Konchalovsky | |
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | My American Uncle | Mon oncle d'Amérique | Alain Resnais | |
| 1981 | Light Years Away | Les Années lumière | Alain Tanner | /  |
| 1982 | The Night of the Shooting Stars | La Notte di San Lorenzo | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | |
| 1983 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Terry Jones [2] | | |
| 1984 | Diary for My Children | Napló gyermekeimnek | Márta Mészáros |  |
| 1985 | Birdy | Alan Parker [3] | | |
| 1986 | The Sacrifice | Offret | Andrei Tarkovsky | / / |
| 1987 | Repentance | მონანიება | Tengiz Abuladze | |
| 1988 | A World Apart | Chris Menges | /  | |
| 1989 | Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | |
| Too Beautiful for You | Trop belle pour toi | Bertrand Blier | | |
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | The Sting of Death | 死の棘 | Kōhei Oguri |  |
| Tilaï | Idrissa Ouedraogo |  / , / / | ||
| 1991 | La Belle Noiseuse | Jacques Rivette | / | |
| 1992 | The Stolen Children | Il Ladro di bambini | Gianni Amelio | |
| 1993 | Faraway, So Close! | In weiter Ferne, so nah! | Wim Wenders | |
| 1994 | Burnt by the Sun | Утомлённые солнцем | Nikita Mikhalkov |  / |
| To Live | 活着 | Zhang Yimou |  | |
| 1995 | Ulysses' Gaze | To Vlemma tou Odyssea | Theo Angelopoulos |  |
| 1996 | Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier |  / | |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan |  | |
| 1998 | Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | |
| 1999 | Humanité | Bruno Dumont | | |
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Devils on the Doorstep | 鬼子来了 | Jiang Wen | |
| 2001 | The Piano Teacher | La Pianiste | Michael Haneke | /  / |
| 2002 | The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | Aki Kaurismäki |  |
| 2003 | Uzak | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |  | |
| 2004 | Oldboy | 올드보이 | Park Chan-wook |  |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Jim Jarmusch | / | |
| 2006 | Flanders | Bruno Dumont | | |
| 2007 | The Mourning Forest | 殯の森 | Naomi Kawase | |
| 2008 | Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | |
| 2009 | A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | |
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux | Xavier Beauvois | |
| 2011 | The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | Dardenne brothers |  / |
| Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | /  /  | |
| 2012 | Reality | Matteo Garrone | / | |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel & Ethan Coen [4] | / / | |
| 2014 | The Wonders | Le meraviglie | Alice Rohrwacher | / / |
| 2015 | Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | |
| 2016 | It's Only the End of the World | Juste la fin du monde | Xavier Dolan | / |
| 2017 | BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee [5] | | |
| 2019 | Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | /  / |
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | / /  / |
| A Hero | قهرمان | Asghar Farhadi |  / | |
| 2022 | Close | Lukas Dhont | /  / | |
| Stars at Noon | Claire Denis | | ||
| 2023 | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | /  | |
| 2024 | All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia |  / / / /  | |
The following individuals received two or more Grand Prix awards:
| Number of Wins | Directors | Nationality | Films | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | Solaris (1972), The Sacrifice (1986) | [6] |
| Bruno Dumont | France | Humanité (1999), Flanders (2006) | [7] | |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey | Uzak (2003), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) | [8] | |
| Matteo Garrone | Italy | Gomorrah (2008), Reality (2012) | [9] |